What is nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately called?
expedient — Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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